1) Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nestby Stephen E. Ambrose 2) Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945by James J Fahey 3) The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought Itby Gerald Astor 4) War As I Knew It by George S. Patton 5) The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day by Cornelius Ryan 6) D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose 7) The VICTORS: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose 8) Pearl Harbor by William R. Forstchen 9) The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns 10) Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
by Evan Thomas
U.S. 10th Grade History Reading List (Adapted)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.
But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he’s a boy who realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody.
Farwell to Manzanar by Jeanne and James Houston
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation’s #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong In My Hands began as one non-Jew’s challenge to any who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, it has become a profound document of an individual’s heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind has known.
In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut’s beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted to miracles. Forced into the service of the German army, young Irene was able, due in part to her Aryan good looks, to use her position as a servant in an officers’ club to steal food and supplies (and even information overheard at the officers’ tables) for the Jews in the ghetto. She smuggled Jews out of the work camps, ultimately hiding a dozen people in the home of a Nazi major for whom she was housekeeper.
An important addition to the literature of human survival and heroism, In My Hands is further proof of why, in spite of everything, we must believe in the goodness of people.
Tragic History of the Japanese-American Internment Campsby Deborah Kent
Before World War II, Japanese Americans had created tight-knit neighborhoods, many becoming American citizens. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States government used its power and authority to force Japanese Americans to live under guard in internment camps surrounded by barbed wire. Despite this, their strong culture and heritage helped them survive the harsh conditions of the camps and the humiliation they felt from being under suspicion.
D-Day by Colin Hynson
Imagine landing on a foreign beach early in the morning after a sickening, cramped boat ride while bullets are streaming down -- and you have no choice but to run forward. On June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied troops braved those conditions when they stormed the Normandy Coast of France and helped bring about the beginning of the end of World War II. Discover the events that led to that fateful day, and learn how the battles that followed brought liberty to millions.
If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
A neo-Nazi teen is transported back in time to World War II Poland, where she is now a Jewish girl in a Nazi ghetto.
U.S. 10th Grade Reading List (PRE-AP)
As part of the Montour High School literacy initiative, during the summer, each student in Pre-AP U.S. History 10 must read three books from the following list (your choice): Book Author The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley/Malcolm X The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson Go Ask Alice Anonymous/Simon & Shuster, 1971 Thirteen Days Robert Kennedy 1984 George Orwell
Upon returning to school next fall, you will be given a task that will show that you read and comprehended the books that you chose.
US-10 Summer Reading List (Choose from the 3 Choices Below)
U.S. History 10th Grade Reading List (Regular)
1) Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler'sEagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
2) Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945 by James J Fahey
3) The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It by Gerald Astor
4) War As I Knew It by George S. Patton
5) The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day by Cornelius Ryan
6) D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
7) The VICTORS: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
8) Pearl Harbor by William R. Forstchen
9) The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
10) Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
by Evan Thomas
U.S. 10th Grade History Reading List (Adapted)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneBerlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.
But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he’s a boy who realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody.
Farwell to Manzanar by Jeanne and James Houston
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation’s #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong
In My Hands began as one non-Jew’s challenge to any who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, it has become a profound document of an individual’s heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind has known.
In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut’s beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted to miracles. Forced into the service of the German army, young Irene was able, due in part to her Aryan good looks, to use her position as a servant in an officers’ club to steal food and supplies (and even information overheard at the officers’ tables) for the Jews in the ghetto. She smuggled Jews out of the work camps, ultimately hiding a dozen people in the home of a Nazi major for whom she was housekeeper.
An important addition to the literature of human survival and heroism, In My Hands is further proof of why, in spite of everything, we must believe in the goodness of people.
Tragic History of the Japanese-American Internment Campsby Deborah Kent
Before World War II, Japanese Americans had created tight-knit neighborhoods, many becoming American citizens. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States government used its power and authority to force Japanese Americans to live under guard in internment camps surrounded by barbed wire. Despite this, their strong culture and heritage helped them survive the harsh conditions of the camps and the humiliation they felt from being under suspicion.
D-Day by Colin Hynson
Imagine landing on a foreign beach early in the morning after a sickening, cramped boat ride while bullets are streaming down -- and you have no choice but to run forward. On June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied troops braved those conditions when they stormed the Normandy Coast of France and helped bring about the beginning of the end of World War II. Discover the events that led to that fateful day, and learn how the battles that followed brought liberty to millions.
If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
A neo-Nazi teen is transported back in time to World War II Poland, where she is now a Jewish girl in a Nazi ghetto.
U.S. 10th Grade Reading List (PRE-AP)
As part of the Montour High School literacy initiative, during the summer, each student in Pre-AP U.S. History 10 must read three books from the following list (your choice):
Book Author
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley/Malcolm X
The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson
Go Ask Alice Anonymous/Simon & Shuster, 1971
Thirteen Days Robert Kennedy
1984 George Orwell
Upon returning to school next fall, you will be given a task that will show that you read and comprehended the books that you chose.